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| "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying : A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever" |
| "Transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method Japan's expert declutterer and professional cleaner Marie Kondo will help you tidy your rooms once and for all with her inspirational step-by-step method The key to successful tidying is to tackle your home in the correct order to keep only the things you really love and to do it all at once - and quickly After that for the rest of your life you only need to choose what to keep and what to discard The KonMari Method will not just transform your space Once you have your house in order you will find that your whole life will change You can feel more confident you can become more successful and you can have the energy and motivation to create the life you want You will also have the courage to move on from the negative aspects of your life you can recognise and finish a bad relationship; you can stop feeling anxious; you can finally lose weight Marie Kondo's method is based on a 'once-cleaned never-messy-again' approach If you think that such a thing is impossible then you should definitely read this compelling book"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Calm Parents, Happy Kids : The Secrets of Stress-free Parenting" |
| "Calm Parents Happy Kids is the UK version of Dr Laura Markham's hugely successful and ground-breaking book Peaceful Parent Happy Kids Now adapted for UK audiences this practical and inspiring book reveals a three step programme that will transform family life Most parenting books focus on changing a child's behaviour but the truth is that children only change when their relationship with their parents changes In Calm Parents Happy Kids Dr Laura Markham introduces an approach to parenting that eliminates threats power struggles and manipulation in favour of setting limits with empathy and communication Bringing together the latest research in brain development with a focus on emotional awareness (for both parents and children) it will appeal to all parents who don't want to force their children into compliance and lose their temper but want to keep calm and help their children want to behave"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The Happy Puppy Handbook : Your Definitive Guide to Puppy Care and Early Training" |
| "Pippa Mattinson dog-training specialist tells you everything you need to know about training and caring for your new puppy From preparing the house and garden before the puppy arrives to introducing your new friend to all the family (including children and other animals) and solving problems like crying night waking feeding upset stomachs biting chewing and jumping up this book is packed with all you need to know as a puppy owner"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe the town took a turn for the better It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us You could get eggs grits bacon ham coffee and a smile for 25 cents Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met And Idgie? She was a character all right You never saw anyone so headstrong But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a mouth-watering tale of love laughter and mystery It will lift your spirits and above all it'll remind you of the secret to life friends"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Would You Rather? by John Burningham (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Would you rather drink snail squash or eat mashed worms? Help a witch make stew? Tickle a monkey? Or maybe - if you could really be anyone or do anything in the world - would you rather just beyou?"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Examining the themes of presence and absence the relationship between photography and theatre history and death these &39;reflections on photography&39; begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs Then as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child the book becomes an exposition of his own mind"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Small is Beautiful is E F Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of economics and its purpose This remarkable book examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live - questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about The revolutionary ideas are as pertinent inspirational and thought-provoking today as when they were first published in 1973"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Hair In Funny Places by Babette Cole (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Girls and boys are always curious and sometimes even alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up Puberty being a particularly unsettling time Babette Cole has made this the subject of the fifth title in her bestselling series of 'family dilemmas' Who else but Babette would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book and the genius to carry it off! In Hair in Funny Places her artwork is without exaggeration some of the best she has ever done it is brilliant The text takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear and is ingenious and funny It is the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Hormone (wonderfully depicted) which is responsible for and plays havoc with the physical and emotional states of girls and boys throughout puberty This book is bound to be controversial but Babette has never taken the conventional path and her readers love her for her outrageous approach to little mentioned topics"
Price: 7.99 |
| "My Many Coloured Days by Random House Children's Publishers UK (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "'You'd be surprised how many ways I change on different coloured days'Maybe on some days you feel sort of brown like a bear; you feel slow and low low down But then comes a yellow day and wheeeeeeeee! you feel like a busy buzzy bee Dr Seuss takes the reader on a journey through many different moods in this vibrant and highly original book"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man a young boy and a giant fish This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements"
Price: 5.99 |
| "A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy was wounded and twice decorated Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms Hemingway&39;s description of war is unforgettable He recreates the fear the comradeship the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over Ripley wants money success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it When his new-found happiness is threatened his response is as swift as it is shocking"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Tokyo 1912 The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families a new and powerful political and social elite Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them Coming of age he is caught up in the tensions between old and new and his feelings for the exquisite spirited Satoko observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The psychologists would call it folie a deux 'Bruno slammed his palms together 'Hey! Cheeses what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train see and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment almost against his conscious will Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities"
Price: 6.49 |
| "In Praise Of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture jade food toilets and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure The result is a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Paris in the twenties Pernod parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful with an abandoned sensuous nature that she cannot change When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight their affair is strained by new passions new jealousies and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Darkness Visible" |
| "This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish With profound insight and remarkable candor Styron tracks the progress of his madness from the smothering misery and exhaustion to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual hard-won recovery Illuminating an illness that affects millions but which remains widely misunderstood this book is about the darkness of depression but it is also ultimately about survival and redemption"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Cider With Rosie" |
| "Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village a village before electricity or cars a timeless place on the verge of change Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion" |
| "Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer Taunted by his schoolmates he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence desire religion and national history to dazzling effect"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress" |
| "1971 Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak Two sons of doctors sent to 're-education' camps forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths have only their sense of humour to keep them going Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at hand The boys' true re-education starts however when they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century Their lives are transformed And not only their lives after listening to the stories of Balzac the little seamstress will never be the same again"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Piano Shop On The Left Bank" |
| "T E Carhart an American living in Paris is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled with dozens of pianos His love affair with this most magical of instruments and its music is reawakened Packed with delicate cameos of Parisians and reflections on how pianos work and their glorious history The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is an atmospheric and absorbing journey to an older way of life"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town David Lurie middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry Willing to admit his guilt but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy&39;s isolated smallholding For a time his daughter&39;s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life But the balance of power in the country is shifting He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Mummy Laid An Egg! by Babette Cole (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Just how are babies made? Erm Wellthey're delivered by dinosaurs squidged out of tubes and found under stones! In this story the kids put their embarrassed parents straight and dispel the myths surrounding baby-making growth and birth Babette Cole careers through the facts of life with her no-nonsense text and funny illustrations"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Guns, Germs And Steel by Jared M. Diamond (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "'A book of big questions and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari bestselling author of SapiensWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography not race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans Asians Native Americans sub-Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians An ambitious synthesis of history biology ecology and linguistics Guns Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Lustrum: (Cicero Trilogy 2) by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Rome 63 BC In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire seven men are struggling for power Cicero is consul Caesar his ruthless young rival Pompey the republic's greatest general Crassus its richest man Cato a political fanatic Catilina a psychopath Clodius an ambitious playboy The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals their cruelties and seductions their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel Its narrator is Tiro a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily humane complex Cicero He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in From the discovery of a child's mutilated body through judicial execution and a scandalous trial to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Queen's Knickers by Nicholas Allan (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "It's a busy year for the Queen - she has lots of important events to attend Meanwhile a little girl is wondering what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear on a school visit! Will they be her 'at home' knickers - adorned with corgis - or her 'garden party' knickers or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones?Both children and adults will love this very special and endearing insight into a child's imagination from the best-selling author-illustrator of Father Christmas Needs A Wee and Jesus' Christmas Party Recently the Queen visited a nursery in Norfolk and enjoyed a display based on the bookjust to make it special there was one element that was not quite so traditional pants These were not just any pants either They were the Queen's Knickers and at Dersingham Infant and Nursery School in Norfolk they were put on special display in honour of their royal visitor Valentine Low The Times"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years Instead it lasted only twelve But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the secret German archives which the Allies captured intact He was also present at the Nuremberg trials This is his authoritative historical account of the years 1933-45 when the Nazis under the rule of their desporic leader Adolf Hitler ruled Germany They commandeered the Holocaust one of the most shocking acts of evil in modern history plunged the world into a second war and changed the face of modern history and modern Europe forever"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government Rubashov once a powerful player in the regime finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason His reflections on his previous life and his experiences in prison form the heart of this moving and though-provoking masterpiece"
Price: 6.49 |
| "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919 Their daughter Francie and their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations and suffering that were the lot of New York's poor A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie an imaginative alert resourceful child and of her family"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Atonement by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "On the hottest day of the summer of 1935 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house Watching her too is Robbie Turner who like Cecilia has recently come down from Cambridge By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone"
Price: 8.49 |
